Sony Pictures Classics

Directed by Marc Turtletaub, the Oscar-nominated producer of Little Miss Sunshine, the drama stars Kelly Macdonald as a bored housewife who takes up jigsaw puzzle -solving, teaming up with a charming puzzle champ played by Irrfan Khan.

The Sundance Film Festival has reached its halfway point and the sales market has been brisk thanks to streaming giants like Amazon and Netflix, who as expected, have been as active as anyone in Park City.

The last time Eleanor Coppola sat in the director’s chair for a feature-length film was in 1991 for the documentary Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse. Fast forward 25 years later and she has finally made her narrative feature directorial debut with the comedy Paris Can Wait and Sony Pictures Classics has managed to land the North American rights to the pic.

Anne is at a crossroads in her life. Long married to a successful, driven but inattentive movie producer, she unexpectedly finds herself taking a car trip from Cannes to Paris with a business associate of her husband. What should be a seven-hour drive turns into a carefree two-day adventure replete with diversions.

With only a few days left of the Toronto International Film Festival, yet another deal is close to being sealed. The Leisure Seeker, an upcoming road trip film from Italian director Paolo Virzì, starring Donald Sutherland and Helen Mirren, is finalizing a deal for U.S. rights with Sony Pictures Classics. Brokered by CAA and Bac Films, the deal is in the mid-seven figure range.

A round-up of today’s distribution sales, deals, and awards at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.

Logline: Story centers on a conservative father who wishes for his race-car driver son to take over the family business in Iowa, but his offspring has other plans in mind.

Logline: Story follows the rivalry between a father and son who are both Talmud professors at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the father a purist and the son ambitious and anxious for recognition.

Logline: Two pairs of parents meet to discuss a physical altercation between their sons, but end up fighting and arguing with each other on parenting, misogyny and other loaded topics.

Logline: Pregnant, married, and awkward at eighteen years old, Carolyn Briggs grows more and more interested in Jesus, eventually giving herself over to a radical New Testament church. Amidst her community of self-described “Jesus Freaks,” Carolyn’s daily life consists of hours of Bible study, alternative family practices and bracing for the oncoming Rapture. It’s only when her marriage begins to unravel that Carolyn dares to question the religious dogma she has embraced for her entire adult life.

Logline: Centers on a family traveling to the City of Lights for business. The party includes a young engaged couple forced to confront the illusion that a life different from their own is better.

Logline: Centers on a group of college girls who take in a new student and teach her their own misguided ways of helping people.

Logline: A group of women try to stop their blowhard husbands from starting a religious war